All Thomas Jefferson Quotes
- ours are the only farmers who can read Homer Educational
- music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui. Book
- Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country Age
- the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his… Educational
- I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances. Advances
- the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind All
- we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of your kindness in the two… Apply
- letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation. Barbarism
- in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and… Attend
- the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to… Boys
- I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man. All
- no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free… Among
- I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day,… Branch
- for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we… Able
- this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to be the chief… Ameliorated
- this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at all by our… Adopted
- A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so… All
- Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother… Amusement
- female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them… Attention
- among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ...… Affection